Designed to offer a dedicated conference and trade show for West Coast lighting specifiers, LightShow West will be held this year on September 25-26 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. LightShow West offers two days of lighting education and solutions…

Philips Lighting has announced that the City of Los Angeles is embarking on a new pilot project to expand its smart city capabilities designed to help improve public safety and support city services for residents, visitors and local businesses. By…

The 144,000-square-foot demonstration center and living laboratory on advanced and emerging clean energy technologies showcases the future of smart energy efficiency design, microgrid system integration, energy storage solutions, building resiliency in the wake of natural disasters or grid interruptions, and…

Amerlux recently supplied its Avista LED light engines as part of a major retrofit project in the downtown Los Angeles area in California. Since the late 1920s, GE lamps were used to provide light for the streets of downtown LA…

Philips Lighting has announced that the City of Los Angeles will use the Philips CityTouch platform to manage the world’s largest street light inventory, both for adaptive control of the predominantly LED lighting and for automation of maintenance operations. Evidently,…

Los Angeles recently converted 140,000 of its street lights to energy-efficient LEDs—the largest such upgrade in the world. Now a new partnership with lighting giant Philips will allow the city’s Bureau of Street Lighting to wirelessly manage all those street…

1. ACEEE: Energy Efficiency Still Cheaper Than New Generation – Energy efficiency programs continue to be the lowest-cost resource for utilities. Efficiency programs cost around 2.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, compared with 7 cents and more for new generation, the organization…

1. U.S. Green Building Council Releases List of Top States in the U.S. for LEED-Certified Projects in 2010 – The top LEED states per capita (square feet of LEED-certified space per person), including the District of Columbia:  District of…

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